Contact
- Website: http://www.johansennewman.com
One-Line Bio
I am an illustrator/author/collector-- married, with 3 sons
Biography
I've been doing art full time since college.
For ten years I was a puppeteer, then fiber artist/doll maker. I used to do the ACC show at Rhinebeck. The last few years of doll making gave way to illustration in the 80's. I have been illustrating for books, magazines, newspaper, brochures, calendars, and other sutff since 1982.
For the last 8 years or so, I have been doing art for kids' books, by choice, and WITH LOVE. Now I also write (or work at being a writer), and I have just sold my first manuscript.
Every waking minute that I am not taking care of my family or buying more junk to draw, I am obsessing about kids' books.
Messy house and laundry? I NEVER obsess about that. I step over it.
Interests
Illustration, kids' books, kitcshy stuff, Elvis lamps, jukeboxes, carnival chalkware, vintage eye glasses, and other stuff your mother threw out. Remember that old table cloth that you ate dinner on in the kitchen? The one that was draped over the chrome and formica table? The one that had the fiesta ware and rice krispies bars on it? It's in my house-- that and the turqoise lamp with the three tiered fiberglass lampshade that you read the TV guide by.
